Wire-fence spacer



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EDVARD M. CROUOH, OF HARTLAND, WISCONSIN.

WIRE-FEN'CE SPACER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 614,163, dated. November 15, 1898.

Application filed April 30, 1897. Serial No. 634:,618. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. CROUCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartland, county of Waukesha, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wire-Fence Spacers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of wire-fence spacers used for telnporarily holding the line-wires of a fence in position at any given point while the staywire is being inserted.

The object of my invention is to provide a spacer which may be used upon any line-wire, whether plain, twisted, or barbed, and which may be either slipped along the wires from place to place or readily removed from the wires and readj usted thereto at any desired point.

In the following description reference is had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a side view of afence with my spacer adjusted thereto preparatory to the insertion of a stay-wire. Fig. 2 is a side View of the spacer, showing the fence-wires in cross-section and with the spacer-bars separated at their upper ends. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are cross-section views drawn, resliectively,V

. erence-letters throughout the several views.

The bar A is provided with wire-engaging projections B at fixed intervals along one edge, and the bar O is provided with a channelor recess D, in which the projections of the bar A are adapted to fit when the two bars are brought together.

At the lower end of the bar A, I have provided an odset socketed portionl E, preferably formed, as shown, of a metal strap bent into a loop and rigidly secured to the bar by rivets F. The bar C is adapted at its lower end to t into the loop or socketed portion E, as shown in Fig. 2, the rear edge of the bar being beveled off at G to facilitate the insertion of the bar into the socket.

When the lower end of the bar C is inserted in the loop E and the bars A and C brought together, the upper end of the bars are held together by a clasp H, the latter being prefpressing them together that the line-wires will be engaged by projections which are lo cated at the proper distance from each other. When the spacer has been adjusted to the fence, it is obvious that the line-wires will be rigidly held together at the proper distances from each other. The stay-wire is inserted in proximity to the spacer, and the latter is then moved along the line-wire, being removed therefrom only when used for barbed wire or in clearing posts.

It is evident that the bars A and C may be made of any suitable material and that the wireengaging projections may be located upon either one or upon both of the bars, and the recess may be formed by merely notching the edge of the bars. A variety of means may also be employed for clamping the bars together without departing from the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wire-fence spacer, comprising a pair of bars, wireengaging projections located upon one of the bars and adapted to register in a channel in the other bar, and means for and means for securing said bars together, adapted to temporarily engage the other bar, substantially for l[he purpose set forth. substantially for the purpose set forth. 1o

A wire-fence spacer, comprising a bar In testimony whereof I aiix my signature provided with Wire-engaging projections, and in the presence of two Witnesses.

havinga socketed projection at its lower end, EDWARD M. CROUCI'I. a second bar having one end adapted to t NTitnesses: into said socket, and a clasp located at the BERTHA L. CROUCH,

upper end of said first-mentioned bar and ROBERT L. OBRIEN. 

